<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=1651447" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/ppKrauss">@ppKrauss</a> As far as I see, the <a href="https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/docs/olc_definition.adoc#shortening-open-location-codes">official definition for OLC short codes</a></p>
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<li>works with a “nearest-reference-point” approach</li>
<li>is intrinsic ambiguous to the same degree as the mentioned reference point is ambiguous (imagine you take “Springfield” as reference – there are quite a few of them on our planet).</li>
<li>the official OLC definition is quite, well, vague. So you can use any geo-coder you like. And it’s on your own how this geo-coder interpretates city or country names. Particularly, to be in line with the OLC definition, it is <strong>not</strong> required to return the same results for geo-coded short codes as Google does for their own services. Results based on Nominatium would be as valid as results based on Googles geo-coding are.</li>
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<p>OLC long codes however are unambigous.</p>
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